fix(cilium): refuse a zero-count gate release and correct the runbook order - #3037
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… order Two follow-ups from review of the ordering fix. require_replica_count accepts any non-negative integer, so an autoscaler already scaled to zero when a gate was activated records previous-replicas=0. The new release phase would then "restore" zero, clear the ownership marker, and hand cluster update the same never-ready Deployment — reproducing the timeout with the state a retry needs already destroyed. It now fails with the conflict named and keeps the marker. The runbook's release step still described the post-deploy phase restoring the autoscaler after cluster update, which is the ordering that just failed in prod. It now names the --after-revision-ready phase and says why the bound matters, so the next rollout is not walked back into it. The runbook also now flags that a node created in the short window between the restore and cluster update's config-secret apply is built from the not-yet-refreshed machine template, and warrants the same verification the first autoscaler-created node already gets.
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In `@scripts/guard-cilium-homogeneous-device-rollout.sh`:
- Around line 420-430: Update the zero-count failure path in
get_previous_replicas handling to provide a recovery action that changes the
gate-owned remembered replica value to a verified positive count before
retrying. Ensure the remediation updates the persisted state consumed by
get_previous_replicas, not only the
cluster-autoscaler-hetzner-cluster-autoscaler Deployment, while preserving the
existing conflict failure behavior.
In `@scripts/tests/test-cilium-homogeneous-devices-autoscaler-gate.sh`:
- Around line 389-402: Update the zero-count regression test around run_guard to
pass true for the revision-ready phase, capture its output while preserving the
expected non-zero status, and assert that the output contains “remembered
autoscaler count of 0”. Keep the existing assertion that previous-replicas
remains 0.
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420-430: 🗄️ Data Integrity & IntegrationVerify that the failure fallback preserves a zero-count marker.
The new check covers the revision-ready path only.
restore_autoscaler_if_ownedstill accepts0, scales to zero, and removes the ownership annotations. The runbook identifiespost-deployas the failure-path fallback. If that phase runs after this failure, it defeats the marker-preservation guarantee. Apply the same rejection to that path, or confirm that the workflow skips it for this failure.#!/bin/bash set -euo pipefail rg -n -C 12 -e '--after-revision-ready|--post-deploy|restore_autoscaler_if_owned|if:.*(failure|always)' \ .github/actions/deploy-prod/action.yml \ scripts/guard-cilium-homogeneous-device-rollout.sh
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Both findings from review, confirmed against the code. The refusal told an operator to restore the replica count on the Deployment, but get_previous_replicas reads the ANNOTATION. Scaling alone leaves the same 0 recorded, so anyone following the instruction hits the identical refusal on the retry. The message now gives both commands and says outright that scaling is not sufficient. Its regression test asserted only a non-zero exit, and called the phase without revision_ready — which run_guard defaults to false. A phase that rejected that flag would have failed for an unrelated reason and the test would still have passed, never reaching the branch it exists to cover. It now passes the flag, captures the output, and asserts the conflict text and the annotation name. Ablated both ways: a scaling-only remediation and an unrelated failure each fail it.
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| remembered_replicas="$(get_previous_replicas)" | ||
| if [[ "${remembered_replicas}" == "0" ]]; then | ||
| # The remediation must change the REMEMBERED value, not just the running | ||
| # replica count: get_previous_replicas reads the annotation, so scaling the | ||
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| fail "the rollout gate owns a remembered autoscaler count of 0, so releasing it cannot satisfy the readiness check that ksail cluster update performs (KSail treats a zero-replica Deployment as never-ready). Record the intended count and scale to match, then retry: kubectl -n ${namespace} annotate deployment ${deployment} ${previous_replicas_annotation}=<count> --overwrite && kubectl -n ${namespace} scale deployment ${deployment} --replicas=<count>. Scaling alone is not enough — the remembered value is what this check reads." |
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When the annotation is 0, this branch fails, but the normal deploy's always() post-deploy reassert subsequently invokes --after-deploy, which still calls restore_autoscaler_if_owned, scales to zero, and clears the annotation; the DR workflow also releases exclusively through that phase. Thus the marker this change intends to preserve is lost and the next cluster update can encounter the same unowned zero-replica Deployment, so the refusal must also cover every post-deploy release path.
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| # replica count: get_previous_replicas reads the annotation, so scaling the | ||
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| fail "the rollout gate owns a remembered autoscaler count of 0, so releasing it cannot satisfy the readiness check that ksail cluster update performs (KSail treats a zero-replica Deployment as never-ready). Record the intended count and scale to match, then retry: kubectl -n ${namespace} annotate deployment ${deployment} ${previous_replicas_annotation}=<count> --overwrite && kubectl -n ${namespace} scale deployment ${deployment} --replicas=<count>. Scaling alone is not enough — the remembered value is what this check reads." |
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When an operator follows this diagnostic from a workstation whose current kube context is not production, both commands target that default cluster even though every mutation performed by the guard itself explicitly uses --context admin@prod. This can modify an identically named Deployment in another cluster while leaving the production annotation unchanged, so include --context admin@prod in both recovery commands.
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Two follow-ups from review of #3035, which merged before they could be pushed.
A remembered replica count of zero is not releasable.
require_replica_countaccepts any non-negative integer, so an autoscaler already scaled to zero when a gate is activated recordsprevious-replicas=0. The release phase would then "restore" zero, clear the ownership marker, and handksail cluster updatethe same never-ready Deployment — reproducing the timeout with the state a retry needs already destroyed.The runbook still described the ordering that failed. Its release step said the post-deploy guard restores the autoscaler after
cluster update. That is exactly what broke in prod:cluster updatewaits for that Deployment, and KSail treats a zero-replica Deployment as never-ready. Following the runbook would walk the next rollout straight back into it.What
The release phase now fails with the conflict named and keeps the ownership marker, instead of silently losing recovery state.
The runbook names the
--after-revision-readyphase and says why the bound matters. It also flags that a node created in the short window between the restore andcluster update's config-secret apply is built from the not-yet-refreshed machine template, so it warrants the same verification the first autoscaler-created node already gets.Comment and guard changes only — the rendered controllers root is byte-identical, so the approved authorization surface fingerprint is untouched.
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